Cuspidor



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D. H. MURPHY.

GUSPIDOR.

No. 400,938. Patented Apr. 9, 1889..

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UNITED STATES PAT NT OFFICE.

DANIEL H. MURPHY, OF HARTFORD, CONNECTICUT.

CUSPIDOR.-

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 400,938, dated April 9,1889.

Application filed anuary 8, 1889. Serial No. 295,789. (No model.)

.To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, DANIEL HENRY MUR- PHY, a citizen of the UnitedStates, residing at Hartford, in the county of Hartford and State ofConnecticut, have invented certain new and useful Improvements inCuspidors, of which the following is a specification.

My improvement relates to the class of cuspidors which are constructedof comparatively cheap materials and designed to be destroyed after ashort use.

The object of the improvement is to provide such a cuspidor which issimple, cheap, and can be packed and stored in a small space; also, toso construct them that the part that is not soiled by refuse willsupport the inner receptacle of cheaper material, so it will not warpand twist out of shape.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1,

is a side view of a cuspidor. Fig. 2 is a view in central section ofsame. Fig. 3 is a view showing a cuspidor packed for storing. Fig. 4 isa view in central section of the latter. Figs. 5, 6, and 7 are modifiedforms. Fig. 8 is a view in central section through a cuspidor, showingthe manner in which the inner receptacle is kept from warping andtwisting out of shape.

In the drawings, the letter a indicates the base of a cuspidor, which ismade dish-shaped from a piece of comparatively rigid material, as stiffpaper or tin.

b is the top or shield, which is formed from a sheet of the samematerial as the base, and preferably is so attached to the base as toslope outward at the same angle.

The top of the base a and the bottom of the shield 19 are united by apiece of flexible material, which forms the cover 0, usually a thinpaper; or, if it is desired to make the base, cover, and shield of thesame material, the cover 0 is made flexible by perforations or slits, asat d in Fig. 5, or this may be accomplished by corrugating the paper, asat e in Fig. 6. The seams f f between the base and cover and shield arecreased and softened, so as to enable the parts to fold together, theshield fitting into the base, so that the device will occupy but a smallspace and a number can be packed in nests, so as to occupy but littlestorage-room, which is particularly necessary and desirable, as thecuspidors are to be used but a short time, and a number are required tobe kept on hand, so that the cuspidor may be cleaned by removing thefoul filth-receptacle from the shell 9 and substituting a clean one.

A great trouble with prior cuspidors which are made from cheapmaterials-as paper which are folded or otherwise formed to shape, isthat on becoming moist, as in use, they warp and twist out of shape andsoon become unsightly. In order to overcome this objection I provide anouter shell or frame-work, preferably of ornamented metal, as shown inmy patent of October 2, 1888, No. 390,614, open at the top and bottom,so that it can be readily polished, and so that the clean receptacle canbe inserted through the top and the foul receptacle removed through thebottom, the upper edge of which shell is rolled inward, so that theopening through the top is slightly smaller than the top of the shield,and just below the top of the shell is a bead or flange, h, whichprojects inward sufficiently to prevent the receptacle from fallingthrough the shell. By thus holding the top of the shield between theinturned top of the shell and the bead belowthe top it is not liable towarp or twist out of shape when it becomes moistened in use.

In order to remove the filth-receptacle from the shell it is onlynecessary to grasp the bottom of the receptacle and a quick pull removesit and it is destroyed, and a clean one unpacked and substitutedtherefor.

I claim as my improvement- 1. As an improved article of manufacture, acuspidor formed of paper, having a base, a, shield b, and a flexiblecover, 0, joining the base and shield, with flexible seams at thejoints, substantially as specified.

2. As an improved article of manufacture, a cuspidor formed of paper,having a base, a, shield b, and a cover, 0, joining the base and shield,with flexible seams at the joints, said cover being slitted to render itflexible, substantially as specified.

3. In combination, in a cuspidor, a shell, 9, with an overturned top andan inwardprojecting flange below the top, and an inner receptacle havinga base, a, a shield, b, and a flexible cover, 0, joining the base andshield, substantially as specified.

DANIEL H. MURPHY.

WVitnesses:

H. R. WILLIAMS, A. F. LANGDON.

